Bulletproof Backpack For US Schools

[billbuckhead]

Bulletproof Backpack For US Schools
Updated: 12:33, Thursday August 16, 2007

A bulletproof backpack is being sold to parents in the US to protect their children against another Columbine-type attack.
A Massachusetts company says its backpack will help protect children from guns.

Tests showed the $175 (£88) pack could also resist knives.

Creators Joe Currant and Mike Pelonzi, who are both parents, said the idea for My Child's Pack was born out of the need to keep their kids safe in school.

"There is no guarantee in life for anything. This product is a tool." said Mr Pelonzi.
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The perfect back to school gift for today's America, an America with the NRA working out of a stolen White House.

[emilyg]

1. What a world.

[burrowowl]

5. Only in Amerika!

[piedmont]

13. No, actually this started in England, where they have some of the strictest gun laws in the world.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1552956.ece

Exclusive: Parents buying body armour for children after teen murders

Scores of worried parents are buying body armour for their children in a desperate attempt to keep them safe as street violence escalates.

A firm that supplies stab- and bullet-proof vests to government agencies around the world has sold 60 jackets, at a cost of between £300 to £425, to concerned parents who have flooded the company with inquiries after several murders of teenagers on London streets.

The company has received more than 100 calls from parents in the capital over the past few weeks. The company, VestGuard UK, usually gets one or two calls of this type per year.

The fatal stabbings of Adam Regis, killed three days after 16-year-old Kodjo Yenga, are the latest in a series of violent incidents involving teenagers in recent months.

[That Is Quite Enough]

2. And this protects you from school shooters how?

Has it occurred to the manufacturers that they might not shoot/knife you in the backpack?

[Buzz Clik]

3. My backpack already is bulletproof -- I keep my laptop in it.

And, needless to say, that is the one and only reason I keep my laptop in my backpack -- to stop bullets.

[ManiacJoe]

8. What leads you to believe your laptop is bullet proof? (n/t)

[Buzz Clik]

9. What are trying to say?

Aren't laptops bulletproof?

Suddenly I'm feeling a lot less invincible.

[ManiacJoe]

10. No, they are not bullet proof. Not even close.

However, if you have books and other stuff in the backpack, the combination of the laptop and the books can be bullet resistant up to a point, depending on the thickness of the books and the power of the round.

[Buzz Clik]

11. Well, as shocked as I was to hear that, I've taken steps to make my laptop bulletproof.

http://www.overstock.com/Office-Supplies/Laptop-Notebook-Computer-Bullet-Proof-Shields/2554540/product.html?iid=prod2554540">TextLaptop/ Notebook Computer Bullet-Proof Shields

Just ordered a pack of these babies from Overstock.com. I intend to put a layer of this stuff on the lenses of my glasses, just in case a stray bullet is headed for my eye.

Invincibility is back!

[ManiacJoe]

12. Gotta love the product name!

:rofl:

[angrycarpenter]

4. Do they match the yellow stripes on their backs?

Fear will sell anything.

[billbuckhead]

7. Say what?

Explain how the little kids have "yellow stripes" on their backs?

[Suich]

6. This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of in my life! n/t